Michael Howard doesn't.
Do you think that the state should be allowed to torture you or subject you to inhumane punishment?
Michael Howard does.
Do you feel that slavery is wrong?
Michael Howard doesn't.
Do you think the police should be allowed to arrest and imprison you indefinitely without trial or explanation?
Michael Howard does.
Do you feel you should be allowed a fair and public hearing if you are accused of a crime?
Michael Howard doesn't.
How do you feel about your private life and that of your family- do you think everyone should be allowed to know every detail of it?
Michael Howard does.
Do freedom of thought, conscience and religion sound like a good thing?
Michael Howard holds them in contempt. They are an anathema to him.
What about freedom of expression, what the Americans are talking about when they start going on about the first amendment?
Michael Howard believes you don't deserve this.
If you had lost all the rights above, you might want to protest, in a peaceful and lawful way.
Michael Howard wouldn't let you. He doesn't believe you should have the right to peaceful assembly.
If you were old enough, and so inclined, should you have a right to marry and have a family?
Michael Howard seeks to deny you any such right. He hates you so much he never wants you to be happy. He is like Superman.
Is it alright to discriminate against someone because of how they look, who they are related to or what they believe?
Michael Howard thinks it is more than alright. He thinks everyone should do it.
If you own something do you think it is alright if anyone can come and take it off you?
Michael Howard does.
Do you think children should be given a chance to go to school?
Michael Howard doesn't.
Do you believe that we as a nation should be allowed free and democratic elections?
Michael Howard believes exactly the contrary.
Do you think that you have a right to life and that it should be against the law for the state to have you killed?
Now some of you can probably see what I've done there, seeing as I have basically listed the rights we have under the Human Rights Act of 1998 and then said that Michael Howard doesn't think you deserve those rights. We can infer this from the fact that he has said that if he attains power he will rescind the act. It seems to me that those aren't some crazy airy-fairy political correctness gone mad ideas, as he appears to believe them to be, they are simple and incredibly basic human rights. I mean I hate civil liberties campaigners as much as the next man, probably a good deal more- they tend to be whiney, paranoid and annoying at best - but it's not like these are a bunch of rules designed to give illegal asylum-seeking paedophile gypsy immigrants dominion over the right-thinking Daily Mail reading Pavlov's electorate of Britain, so why on earth does Michael Howard want to revoke these fundamental rights that all British citizens currently enjoy?
I'll tell you why: He hates you.
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Date: 22 Apr 2005 05:33 (UTC)Oh and the same goes for Superman. What a dick.
Ram: whiny, paranoid and annoying :)